Time for Canada to relieve women of the ‘third shift’
The dogged work of organizing and advocating for equality constitutes a ‘third shift’ for women already burdened by the unpaid labour they still perform more often in their homes and communities.
By the time Canadian law permitted my mother to use contraception, she’d already been pregnant six times. In the 1950s, those pregnancies were legal justification for any employer to fire her. But her necessary labour—first, picking fruit on her family farm during the Se...
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